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Foreign Affairs As Netanyahu and Zelensky Visit Trump, Their Wars Converge Warnings about World War III suddenly seem much less melodramatic. Photo by ODED BALILTY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Last month I wrote about some disturbing links between the wars in Ukraine and Iran and the specter of a perilous American conflict spanning Eurasia and the Middle East. This weekend brought a new development on that front: The two wars started converging into a perilous American conflict spanning Eurasia and the Middle East. On Saturday, Ukraine said it had struck ships transporting Iranian-linked military cargo in the Caspian Sea. The next day, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi alleged that Ukraine had actually struck “an Iranian commercial…Open
A new nonproliferation standard for Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East nuclear fuel cycle
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The United States faces two nuclear questions in the Middle East that have quietly fused into one. The first is whether Iran, after years of escalation, concealment, and enrichment far beyond any civilian need, will be permitted to retain a domestic enrichment capability under a negotiated ceiling. The second is whether Saudi Arabia will receive American civil-nuclear cooperation on terms that permit — or leave the door open to — sovereign enrichment and reprocessing. These are not separate files. Iran sets the precedent; Saudi Arabia is the test case; the rest of the region is watching. The proper American position is not simply no bomb. It is no sovereign fuel-cycle pathway —no domestic enrichment and no domestic…Open
President Trump will meet his Ukrainian counterpart in Washington this week. President Volodymyr Zelensky will also attend the funeral of Senator Lindsey Graham.